Would you ride in an autonomous vehicle if you knew that it was subject to visual problems? How about undergo cancer treatment based on a computer interpretation of radiological images such as an ...

As more patients seek permanent alternatives to glasses and contacts, Refractive Lens Exchange (RLE)—also known as Custom Lens Replacement—continues to grow in popularity. In a newly published article ...

Scientists have long known that the brain's visual system isn't fully hardwired from the start—it becomes refined by what babies see—but the authors of a new MIT study still weren't prepared for the ...

Vision loss has long been treated as a one-way street, a devastating endpoint rather than a problem the brain might quietly work to solve. A wave of research is now overturning that assumption, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Sai writes about healthcare, innovation and technology. Elon Musk’s latest venture: Using Neuralink to help people with vision ...

The animal kingdom is full of examples of species that can fully regenerate their vision, but unfortunately, humans are not among them. A new study highlights that mammals aren’t without some nifty ...